Abstract: Organizational citizenship behaviors of the employees can be both the sincere expression of good soldiers and the hypocritical performance of good actors. Through an empirical analysis of the paired data between 302 employees and workmates in an enterprise, this paper tries to explore the impact of prosocial motives and impression management motives on the organizational citizenship behaviors. The results show that prosocial motives have significant impacts on organizational citizenship behaviors both toward workmates and toward organizations, while impression management motives have significant effects only on organizational citizenship behaviors toward organizations. The impression management motives can play a regulating role between prosocial motives and organizational citizenship behaviors toward organizations, that is, the stronger the employee’s impression management motives, the weaker the correlation between prosocial motives and organizational citizenship behaviors toward organizations.

Key words: prosocial motive; impression management motive; organizational citizenship behaviors toward workmates; organizational citizenship behaviors toward organizations